Didn’t even have to leave home.
This morning, around 8am, there was much bird activity outside my place.
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Mixed feeding flock consisting of mainly grey fantails and both species of pardalotes and a pair of white-browed scrub-wrens
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Four gang-gangs flew over
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A little corella as well as several sulphur-crested cockies
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A cloud of very noisy currawongs filled the sky for a minute or two before dispersing (30-40?).
At lunchtime, there was a noisy flock of SCCs (not unusual), but when I looked up to observe them, I saw that they were chasing a barn owl. The owl alighted somewhere nearby as all hell broke loose. Then it reappeared trying to make a
getaway, but was closely and aggressively attended by magpies, currawongs, and ravens with the SCCs circling above for a good view.
David Rosalky
